| To begin we must first understand what is Botox. | | | | botox as a treatment to the chronic headaches, |
| Also known as the botulinum toxin, botox is a | | | | especially the tension or stress headaches & |
| medicine that is a neurotoxin. Neurotoxins are the | | | | migraines. Usually stress or tension headache is |
| medicines that attack our nerve cells. Botox was | | | | caused due to self induced stress that further |
| actually made & approved by the FDA in order to | | | | causes the tightness of muscles that leads to mild |
| fight back the conditions of hyperactivity of the | | | | and / or moderate pain across your forehead, at |
| muscles. Actually the theory of Botox is to | | | | the back of your head, and / or through out your |
| weaken or paralyze the muscles by inhibiting the | | | | head. Migraines of all sorts tend to produce a |
| release of acetylcholine in the person's body. | | | | pulsating or pounding pain on one side of your |
| Further, the acetylcholine is an ester of choline | | | | head. These are frequently accompanied by |
| that plays an essential role in the transmission of | | | | nausea, visual disturbances, and / or sensitivity to |
| the nerve impulses at the synapses & myoneural | | | | light and / or sound. |
| that is the muscle nerve junctions. With the | | | | Botox is now a commonly suggested drug for |
| inhibition the release of acetylcholine, one's nerves | | | | almost all migraine patients these days. Besides |
| can not cause the muscle contraction and hence | | | | the neurosurgeons, now the plastic surgeons are |
| the muscles get relaxed. This drug is given by | | | | also suggesting their patients to take Botox as |
| injecting directly in to the affected muscles. | | | | the drug helps reduces the wrinkles on the face |
| This drug is quite effective in relieving the pain of | | | | and reduces the headache in those patients as |
| migraine. Hence, botox is great relief to | | | | well. |
| headaches. Now the researchers are trying to use | | | | |